Thomas+J.+Ney

Dr. Thomas J. Ney had been born in Ireland on Christmas day, 1893. He died at the age of 41 on February 5, 1940 in Chicago. He was implicated in the following abortion deaths:

On the first of June, 1926, Willie Pearl Walker, an 18-year-old Black homemaker born in Eaton, Georgia, died at her Chicago home from complications of a criminal abortion performed that day. A white doctor, Thomas J. New, (most likely transcription error for Dr. Thomas J. Ney) was held by the coroner in Willie Pearl's death.

In mid-November, 1928, 21-year-old Eunice McElroy died in Chicago from complications of a criminal abortion.

In July of, 1931, Dr. Thomas J. Ney was indicted by a grand jury for felony murder in Eunice's death and prosecuted. I have been unable as of yet to determine the outcome of the trial. In the mean time he managed to perpetrate a fatal abortion on Elma Bromps.

Prosecutors in Ney's trial for the death of Elma Bromps brought forth Eunice McElroy's mother, who testified that on nine occasions Ney had poisoned, and thus silenced, nine of his ailing abortion victims. I have been unable to determine if this is true, and, if so, how Mrs. McElroy would know of it.